Rootwork Lab: Oñí Ocan

  • Round 17

Rootwork Lab: Oñí Ocan

Oñí Ocan is a multimedia performance ritual that examines the transformative and healing power of desire and pleasure through an engagement with Oshun, the Yoruba orisha of rivers, freshwaters, and sweetness. In this ritual, a group of 20 black women, sex workers, and queer and trans artists are covered in honey. Rootwork Lab will develop Oñí Ocan as a long-term project that integrates performance rituals in public spaces that invite public participation.